Combined school desk and seat.



No. 688,878. Patentad Dec. 17, IQDI.

' G. L. NEUENDURFF.

COMBINED SCHOOL DESK AND SEAT.

(Application filed Seph'Y, 1901.)

(No Modal.) 3 Sheets-Sheet I.

nnrmnr I Wii'm'ssss; Invznfov: V 7% v. m Q M Qm/F ML 910 M HM 1: uonms Perms cu. PnoTou'rHa. wumnoron. D. c.

No. 688,878 Patentad Dec. l7, 190i.

0. L. NEUENDURFF.

COMBINED SCHUUL DESK AND SEAT.

(Application filed Sept. 7. 1-901.)

(No Model.) 3 Sheets-Sheet 2.

Wiimssgs: In vmTor:

T9 v" COAL 71mm M WWQ rim flam g.

Pafented 080.17, mm.

C. L. NEUE'NDURFF.

COMBINED SCHOOL DESK AND SEAT.

(Applicationfiled. Sept. 7. 1901.)

3 Sheets-Sheet 3.

(No Model.)

wiimsszs:

,THE Nonms PETERS co, PnoYoMmo.v wAsmus'roN, r:v cv

Nrrnn STATES n'rnNr anion.

CARL LUDWIG NEUENDORFF, OF I'IERBORN, GERMANY.

COMBINED SCHOOL DESK AND SEAT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 688,878, dated December 17, 1901. Application filed September 7, 1901. Serial No. 74,673. (No model.)

This in vention relates to a combined school,

desk and seat in which the latter tilts back when the scholar stands up and which is hinged at one end to the floor, so that it may be turned up when the room is to be swept. The particular features of the invention consist in facilitating this turning up of the bench by arranging the end supports of the desk at a little distance from the ends, so that the end seats extend either partly or entirely beyond these supports. WVhen the end seats are placed entirely or partly outside the end supports,so that at the hinged end of the desk there is a part of the footboard extending beyond the hinge, this part is itself hinged to the end support. In desks of this kind hitherto made the space necessary for tilting back the seats was provided by placing the seats in between the supports of the backorthe supports of the desk next behind, as the case might be. Such an arrangement necessitated placing the seats far apart and not uniformly distributed along the desk, the space between the seats at the ends being greater than that between the others. When the supports, and consequently the floor-hinge, are situated at the extremities of the desk, the weight of the latter makes the turning up of the desk on end so difficult that one having three or more seats could hardly be used. Hence the need for desks with the supports at some distance from the ends.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is an end elevation of two desks constructed according to this invention. Fig. 2 is a front elevation of two seats. Fig. 3 is a back elevation of three seats, Fig. 4 being the same turned on end. Figs. 5 and 6 show a modification, and Figs. 7 and 8 are detail views drawn to an enlarged scale.

a is a rail on the floor to which one of the end beams b, which carry the supports 0, is hinged. The supports cl carry the bar 6, on which the frames f of the seats rock in the known manner, as is evident from Fig. l, in

which the hinder seat is in position .for use, while the front one is tilted back. The hinder seats have a separate back g, while the front ones have the back of the desk behind them as their back. In the former case the seats do not extend right up to the back, the supports of which are curved, as at h, to accommodate the seat when the scholar stands up and tilts it back.

In the longer desk (shown in Figs. 3 and 4) the supports 0 are situated farther from the ends, about the middle of the length of the end seats n. As in this case a part j of the footboard "5 extends beyond the hinge 7o, this part must be hinged at Z to the support 0 at that end, so that when the desk is turned on end the part j may fold, as shown in Fig. 4. By providing a spring-catch or the like mon the frame of the end seat, with which a pin 7" on the partj of the footboard engages when the desk is turned on end, this part may be retained in its folded position when the desk is returned to its normal position, so that the part of the floor which this part covers may be swept. This spring engagement may afterward be loosened by hand. The same construction may be applied to a desk with more than three seats.

In the form shown in Figs. 5 and 6 the sup ports 0 are placed so far from the ends of the desk that the end seats at are completely beyond them. The necessity for arranging the partj of the footboard to fold when the desk is turned on end and to be retained, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 5, for sweeping is here even greater than in the preceding case. Obviously the desk 0 must also be extended be yond the supports to correspond with the seats.

Now what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is the following:

1. A school-desk hinged at one end to the floor having tilting seatsextending sidewise beyond the deskand seat supports substantially as described.

2. The combination with a desk and seat forming a structure mounted to swing sidewise so that said structure may be turned up on one end, of a footboard carried by said structure and having a hinged end adjacent to the attached or pivot end of the structure.

3. The combination with a desk and seat forming a structure arranged to swing sidei to the attached or pivot end of the structure, wise so that said structure may be turned up with an end hinged to swing about a horizonon one end, of a footboard carried by said tal axis, and a catch for holding said'hinged 15 structure and provided adjacent to the atend in its elevated position.

5 tached or pivot end of the structure with a In testimony whereof I have signed my hinged end portion mounted to swing about name to this specification in the presence of an axis parallel with the pivot 01": the structwo subscribing Witnesses.

ture. q

4. The combination with a desk and seat R LUDWIG NEUENDORB 10 forming a structure mounted to swing side- \Vitnesses:

Wise so that said structure maybe turned up KARL CHRISTIAN PAUL. MERZ, on one end, of a footboard provided adjacent KARL ENGEL. 

